The "we-heart-policies-that-divide-families" Heritage Foundation has a poverty "expert", R. Rector, who is always wrong. His 2000 predictive charts on the effects of the Bush tax cuts on jobs are laughable now. But everything he says about poverty is also DEAD wrong. Makes me wonder if these guys that make the big bucks are paid to be wrong.

All the major policy changes that were allegedly discussed in the past. I call bullcrap. Reagan cut programs for the poor very quickly, so fast that my conservative parents who were very slow to ask for help were turned away from aid when they turned to their last resort-the gov't. No jobs, no safety nets. Voila- a home with no heat, no running water, and very little food. Us children get placed into foster care since my parents are indigent. So, those policies for the poor. HOW did they work out for you, GOP? Got Rich? BECAUSE they took a shit on poor children across the country. Praise life.

They are paid to put out an opinion that benefits themselves.

Some pople want policies of war and benefits to the rich. Unfortuantely they seem to have enough money to keep pushing their ideas.

Sorry about the harm that was done to you. I met a few people who were thrown out onto the street after years in mental health hospitals.

I don't know if mental health hospitals were the best place for them to be but it was obvious living homeless, without a job, on the streets made their lives worse.